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>>16512931
Laird Barron, More Dark, impliedly refutes it (or perhaps refutes Ligotti, as such).

http://revelatormagazine.com/fiction/more-dark/

https://pastebin.com/Gr3HtvRp

>>5000568
Through nature led a railtrack, past the shadow of green trees and the undergrowth that surrounded them. I followed the rails towards an unknown destination, above me was a pale grey sky and a few holes of blue.

>>5000568
Rails, clouds, nature, trees, green, shadow, blue sky, unknown destination, rocks,

Through nature led a railtrack, past the shadow of green trees and the undergrowth that surrounded them. I followed the rails towards an unknown destination, above me the a pale grey sky and a few holes of blue.

So this is Elmore Leonards: 10 Rules for Good Writing
> 1. Never open a book with weather.
> 2. Avoid prologues.
> 3. Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue.
> 4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb "said”…he admonished gravely.
> 5. Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
> 6. Never use the words "suddenly" or "all hell broke loose."
> 7. Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly.
> 8. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters.
> 9. Don't go into great detail describing places and things.
> 10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.

Have any other authors compiled a list of Dos & Donts of writing?
Do you have some rules/tips of your own?
POST 'EM